HP Experts Portray IT Transformation Vision, Explain New Wave of Virtualization Products and Services

Virtualization has been gaining attention and adherents faster than ever, but the context of virtualization to business outcomes has been sketchy. Hewlett-Packard on Sept. 2 announced a series of products and services designed to place virtualization into a business and economic framework, one that helps enterprises embrace virtualization in the content of IT transformation. The goal is to use many virtualization products and attain the needed professional services in a way that optimizes the outcomes and paybacks from virtualization activities, to make them related and managed holistically over an IT lifecycle. In order to better understand the new role and return for virtualization, how HP approaches the issues, and to gain more details on the Sept. 2 news, BriefingsDirect conducted a panel discussion with Greg Banfield, consulting manager for the HP Consulting and Integration (C&I) Group infrastructure practice; Dionne Morgan, worldwide marketing manager for HP’s Technology Services Group (TSG), and Tom Norton, worldwide practice lead for Microsoft Services at HP. Our podcast is moderated by Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. Sponsor: Hewlett-Packard. Read a full transcript of the discussion at: http://briefingsdirect.blogspot.com/2008/09/hp-experts-portray-it-transformation.html.